Symbiotics

Symbiotics is a specialist in human performance enhancement, providing organisations with the training methods and tools required to help people excel.

Our specialist team provides human performance consultancy to aviation, blue-light, transportation and defence sectors and is well known for its ability to understand and improve how people perform in their working environments.

We’ve developed a suite of human performance enhancement assessment and training systems, including theADAPT systemwhich provides a blended assessment of a pilots’ physical and cognitive ability, personality, skills and behaviour.

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Mental health is almost seen as a ‘dirty word’ – to be avoided and not mentioned if at all possible. Certainly for pilots, the possibility of admitting that their mental state is less than perfect could lead to fear of losing their licence and consequently be a disincentive to acknowledging that they might have difficulties. Yet mental health is something that is present in all people, all of the time. All individuals operate on a wellness spectrum from ‘OK’ to ‘not OK’ but it is only when one moves to ‘not OK’ that mental health is talked about. Perhaps it is time to talk about mental wellbeing instead, with a focus on how we keep people in this positive state?

Apart from the opportunity to exhibit and network at EATS 2017, we at Symbiotics Ltd, were also very keen to hear the latest thinking and developments in Airline Training and Recruitment. Therefore attending key seminars, panel discussions and keynote addresses. One element that did, however, seem to be missing was discussion around assessing mental wellbeing – for all aircrew.

Symbiotics Ltd, part of Resource Group, has formed a working partnership with Ascenso, a South African aviation recruitment company. Symbiotics will provide Ascenso with its ‘Adapt’ suite of computerised applicant screening tools that will be used throughout South Africa and across the region.